Re: Font bug in IE 5.5

You wrote:
> Which is the bigger bug? barfing if Arial has been removed from the 
> system, or: presenting a font which it believes to be of the correct
> font family??

The real bug is that IE ignores the *requirements* of the CSS 
specification, which state that where the specified character does not
have a glyph in the requested font, that font _must not_ be used. If it
did this, any defect in the font's type signalling would be irrelevant. 

Received on Sunday, 15 October 2000 11:25:26 UTC